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African American Genealogy Resources: States/Tennessee

From Christine's Genealogy Website.

AfriGeneas | African Ancestry in Tennessee

First Families of Tennessee Program

A heritage program sponsored by the East Tennessee Historical Society, honoring descendants of the first settlers of Tennessee.

First People of Tennessee

GEDCOM Index .com - Tennessee

Index of GEDCOM files found online, arranged by surname and given name.

Gen. James Robertson of TN: History & Genealogy

Gen. James Randolph Robertson is a significant historical personality. Andrew Jackson called him the Father of Tennessee for leading the perilous settlement, far beyond the then frontier, into the middle TN area.

Maryville Tennessee Biographies

Melungeon Heritage Association, Inc.

Online County and Town Histories - Tennessee

This site provides over 3,000 links to free county and town histories published from 1850 to the early 1920s. These histories often contain detailed biographies of their citizens.

People of Color in Old Tennessee

Profiles of African Americans in Tennesee

Runaway Slave Blog

This ongoing project is a collection of African American slave names that were printed in west Tennessee newspapers before 1865. These men, women and children were advertised as runaway slaves or listed as property for sale.

Scotch-Irish of Tennessee

Taken from The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings of the Scotch-Irish Congress at Columbia, Tennessee, May 8-11, 1889.

Settlers and Intruders on Cherokee Indian Lands 1801-1816

Excerpts from the papers of the Cherokee Indian Agency in Tennessee.

Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842

Contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Tennessee State Museum and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.

Tennessee African American Griots

This site is dedicated to preserving Tennessee African American Genealogy and History.

Tennessee Biographies Project

The Chickasaw and Their Cessions

Tribes and Villages of Tennessee

Women in Tennessee History: A Bibliography